jan 19th- “one hundred” release date is here…i’m also celebrating my birthday at cha…if you are not in houston, you can get the album at itunes or beatport, amongst other download sites…

immensely talented, super hard-working and ambitious (see the pic below of a text he sent to me today…a sunday!)…trevor came to me to help me accomplish the idea that flash gordon parks had presented to me: “do a countdown of one hundred days to one hundred”…when flash mentioned it, i thought it was cool…as we [...]

here’s a sampling…the 33 1/3 series are particularly interesting…i’ve read the ones on “paul’s boutique,” “signs of the times,” “people’s instinctive…,” “endtroducing,” “live at the apollo,” among a number of others…  

i packed my vinyl on monday and when i started my set i played a number of the songs below…they belong to an era, mostly around the early 80s…for me..and for the music industry in general, pivotal years: transition from the disco years…as in every decade of my life, many trips to nyc exposed me [...]

i spent the day with mom, celebrating her birthday…none of this would be possible without her, of course! happy birthday!

-taken sunday afternoon at the rothko chapel… i like finley quaye’s music…always have…finley has never really picked up much steam here and apparently has made some un-wise decisions in his life…neither her nor there for me…when you tackle bob’s “sun is shining” (one of my fave bob songs) and you put a completely new spin [...]

don’t leave till tomorrow what can be done today ’cause if you don’t do it now make way molina cuz i’m coming now because i am who i am get aside, so I can take your place, get aside these are the lyrics delivered by cheo feliciano in “quitate tu pa ponerme yo” (“get aside [...]